I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.

The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.